Hypertext Webster Gateway: "jut"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Jut \Jut\ (j[u^]t), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Jutted}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Jutting}.] [A corruption of jet.]
1. To shoot out or forward; to project beyond the main body;
as, the jutting part of a building. ``In jutting rock and
curved shore.'' --Wordsworth.
It seems to jut out of the structure of the poem.
--Sir T.
Browne.
2. To butt. [Obs.] ``The jutting steer.'' --Mason.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Jut \Jut\, n.
1. That which projects or juts; a projection.
2. A shove; a push. [Obs.] --Udall.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
jut
n 1: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from
a form [syn: {bulge}, {bump}, {hump}, {gibbosity}, {gibbousness},
{prominence}, {protuberance}, {protrusion}, {extrusion},
{excrescence}]
2: the act of projecting out from something [syn: {protrusion},
{projection}, {jutting}]
v : extend out or project in space; "His sharp nose jutted out";
"A single rock stick out from the cliff" [syn: {stick out},
{protrude}, {jut out}, {project}]
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